On the left is something else all together. It’s the new Unity-2D-Launcher that’ll be standard in Ubuntu 11.04, but I hacked it to pieces so that now the “Applications” and “File & Folders” icons are no longer there, the trash icon and removable media have been replaced with faenza alternatives, all backgrounds have been removed from the icons so that it appears to simply be Faenza themed. I’ll post a tutorial for this soon. But here’s the install instructions:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:unity-2d-team/unity-2d-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unity-2d-default-settings
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
(If it doesn’t do something right just go to Synaptic, search for “unity-2d” and use common sense.)

The Dock, a integral part of a modern linux setup it seems. Me, I struggle to find a lasting use for them against the simple capabilities of panels. But I gots one for now, its GLX (Cairo) Dock and you can just install it via the Ubuntu Software Centre. The theme however is from Gnome-Look.org, its a .deb file so just choose your distro specific package and it’ll install via Ubuntu Software Centre (you must do this after installing the Dock):

Then just launch the dock from Menu>Accessories (preferrably with OpenGL), right click anywhere on the dock then go to Cairo Dock>Manage Themesselect “Local _elementary_”, tick the two boxes below and click apply.

And in the second screenshot (the one where I’ve opened Nautilus) I’m using Nautilus-Elementary: